UnHerdIf you were bullied by 338 colleagues, what would you do?

 Suzanne Moore
It is March 2020. For several months now I have been trying to write something — anything — about the so-called “trans debate” in my Guardian column. But if I ever slip a line in about female experience belonging to people with female bodies, and the significance of this, it is always subbed out. It is disappeared. Somehow, this very idea is being blocked, not explicitly, but it certainly isn’t being published. My editors say things like: “It didn’t really add to the argument”, or it is a “distraction” from the argument.

Distraction has always been a triggering word for me. In a good way. My PhD supervisor told me I was “a woman of too many distractions”. This was because I was venturing into journalism, frustrated by the dead language of academia ...

Even though I’d been writing for them for decades, editors consistently try to steer me towards “lifestyle” subjects for my column. One even suggests that I shouldn’t touch politics at all. And yet I won the Orwell Prize for political journalism the year before.

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Why I Had To Leave The Guardian

UnHerdIf you were bullied by 338 colleagues, what would you do?

 Suzanne Moore
It is March 2020. For several months now I have been trying to write something — anything — about the so-called “trans debate” in my Guardian column. But if I ever slip a line in about female experience belonging to people with female bodies, and the significance of this, it is always subbed out. It is disappeared. Somehow, this very idea is being blocked, not explicitly, but it certainly isn’t being published. My editors say things like: “It didn’t really add to the argument”, or it is a “distraction” from the argument.

Distraction has always been a triggering word for me. In a good way. My PhD supervisor told me I was “a woman of too many distractions”. This was because I was venturing into journalism, frustrated by the dead language of academia ...

Even though I’d been writing for them for decades, editors consistently try to steer me towards “lifestyle” subjects for my column. One even suggests that I shouldn’t touch politics at all. And yet I won the Orwell Prize for political journalism the year before.

Continue reading @ UnHerd.

6 comments:

  1. I love reading Moore's articles because I usually either wholeheartedly agree with her or vehemently disagree. On trans issues I stand with her. "People with uteruses" are women. The thought police have shut her down, shame on The Guardian.

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    1. even if they are not women, surely people should still be allowed to disagree. The Guardian is behaving shamefully.

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  2. Any chance of her getting a job with the "Unirish Times"? 📰 No. 😔

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  3. Fucking 'trans' my hole. Until I see a 'trans' woman give birth it's a bloke with a psychological illness. Or a 'trans' man not giving two solitary fucks if he spreads his legs on public transport. sexuality is a preference, gender is what you're born as. She got shafted because she dared go against the zeitgeist and state the bloody obvious.

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    1. Steve R

      Gender dysmorphia is a recognised psychological condition and I did have a colleague many years ago who was transitioning from male to female through proper surgery. Gender is a fluid concept.

      That said, I believe that self-declared trans women should not be allowed access to women-only spaces because of the possible danger to women as the Karen White case shows; this self-declared trans women was found guilty of raping women inmates at Armley Jail, Leeds.

      The judicial ruling this week forbidding the giving of puberty blockers to young people under 16 seeking transition which had been going on at the Tavistock clinic.

      That said, there is a vicious fundamentalist trans lobby who have been mercilessly trolling what they call TERFs (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists). JK Rowling was a particulary prominent victim of these trolls.

      Suzanne Moore also references the unpleasantness of the Corbyn cult. She has fallen victim to the same type of bullying that Jewish MPs such as Luciana Berger, Ruth Smeeth and Loiuse Ellman and party members from "comrades" who deemed them outcasts for not adhering to the cult's line on Israel/Palestine.

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  4. I have always enjoyed Suzanne Moore's journalism. Her treatment by the Guardian is a case of terrorising dissent from certain received left truths dressed up in corporate virtue signalling. A shameful chapter in the Guardian's history. And I agree with her stance on trans issues.

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